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Ang Lee
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Ang Lee

Taiwanese film director and screenwriter

Born 23 October 1954 · living, 71 as of October 2026
Also known as Lee Ang

Who was alive at the same time as Ang Lee?

  1. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  2. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  3. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  4. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  5. Mao Zedong, 1893 – 1976
  6. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  7. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  8. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  9. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  10. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  11. Marilyn Monroe, 1926 – 1962
  12. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968
  13. Pope Francis, 1936 – 2025
  14. Joe Biden, born 1942
  15. Donald Trump, born 1946
  16. George W. Bush, born 1946
  17. Vladimir Putin, born 1952
  18. Ang Lee, born 1954
  19. Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011
  20. Bill Gates, born 1955
  21. Michael Jackson, 1958 – 2009
  22. Barack Obama, born 1961
  23. Jimmy Wales, born 1966
  24. Shakira, born 1977

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When Ang Lee was born, Donald Trump was 8, Albert Einstein was 75, Vladimir Putin was 2, Ronald Reagan was 43 and Nelson Mandela was 36.

Born during Ang Lee’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Michael Jackson, Bill Gates, Jimmy Wales, Shakira, Steve Jobs, Lionel Messi and Corbin Bleu.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler died about 9 years before Ang Lee was born, Mahatma Gandhi died about 6 years before Ang Lee was born, Joseph Stalin died about a year before Ang Lee was born and Rabindranath Tagore died about 13 years before Ang Lee was born.

What happened in Ang Lee’s lifetime

Where Ang Lee’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

4,036 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Ang Lee. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1990.

  1. Barack Obama born 1961
  2. Donald Trump born 1946
  3. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  4. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  5. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  6. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  7. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  8. George W. Bush born 1946
  9. Joe Biden born 1942
  10. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  11. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  12. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  13. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  14. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  15. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  16. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  17. Bill Gates born 1955
  18. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  19. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  20. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  21. Shakira born 1977
  22. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  23. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  24. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  25. Lionel Messi born 1987
  26. Corbin Bleu born 1989
  27. Bill Clinton born 1946
  28. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  29. Basshunter born 1984
  30. Angela Merkel born 1954
  31. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  32. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  33. François Hollande born 1954
  34. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  35. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  36. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  37. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  38. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  39. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  40. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  41. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  42. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  43. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  44. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  45. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  46. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  47. Elon Musk born 1971
  48. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  49. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  50. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  51. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  52. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  53. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  54. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  55. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  56. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  57. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  58. Lady Gaga born 1986
  59. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  60. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  61. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  62. Madonna born 1958
  63. Kamala Harris born 1964
  64. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  65. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  66. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  67. Xi Jinping born 1953
  68. Naruhito born 1960
  69. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  70. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  71. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  72. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  73. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  74. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  75. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  76. Bob Dylan born 1941
  77. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  78. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  79. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  80. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  81. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  82. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  83. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  84. Justin Bieber born 1994
  85. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  86. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  87. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  88. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  89. Taylor Swift born 1989
  90. Charles III born 1948
  91. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  92. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  93. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  94. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  95. Kim Jong Un born 1984
  96. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  97. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  98. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  99. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  100. Eminem born 1972
  101. Beyoncé born 1981
  102. Selena Gomez born 1992
  103. Narendra Modi born 1950
  104. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  105. Rafael Correa born 1963
  106. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  107. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  108. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  109. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  110. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  111. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  112. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  113. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  114. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  115. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  116. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  117. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  118. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  119. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  120. Mark Zuckerberg born 1984
  121. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  122. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  123. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  124. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  125. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  126. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  127. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  128. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  129. Shinzo Abe 1954 – 2022
  130. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  131. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  132. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  133. Tim Berners-Lee born 1955
  134. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  135. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  136. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  137. Jackie Chan born 1954
  138. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  139. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  140. Robin Williams 1951 – 2014
  141. Guillermo Lasso born 1955
  142. Celine Dion born 1968
  143. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  144. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  145. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  146. Roger Federer born 1981
  147. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  148. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  149. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  150. Lana Del Rey born 1985